'Greg Beato: Amusing Ourselves to Depth\r'

'GREG BEATO: funny Ourselves to profundity 1. Tim Keck started The onion because â€Å"he wanted to create a compelling way to deliver advertising to his teammate students”. â€Å"Part of the first issue’s drift page was devoted to a story virtually a monster running amok at a local lake; the rest was reserved for beer and pizza coupons. ” (389) This shows that the watchwordpaper’s direction towards â€Å" keep in line give-and-take” and advertisement. 2.The Onion is one successful newspaper because it prints 710,000 copies of from each one weekly edition, 6,000 more than the Denver post; earn 3000 local advertisers; attract 2 million online readers a week and boast a 60% attach in their print circulation. (389-390) 3. Beato choose the title â€Å"Amusing Ourselves to Depth” because it warns the fate that would befall us if humanity discourse were allowed to become substantially more entertain (390), which is the opposite to what The Onion is doing. This suggests Beato is against this idea, and supports The Onion, that entertainment in news is good. 4.Beato mentions â€Å"America’s most informed citizens alone prefer comedy over the stentorian slobber the network anchormannequins dispense,” (390) to argue against Neil Postman’s notion. 5. The Onion focused on expressing a worldview of any mannequin and delights in crapping on pieties and regularly publishes stories guaranteed to upset somebody by being completely honest. 6. Beato is not suggesting that fake news is better than â€Å"real” news alone implying that by being honest, expressing a worldview of any broad and not afraid of offending people with a pinch of entertainment is better way to read news.\r\n'